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"Subsequently many of the points won't sit well with the techie crowd." I'm not sure what you mean? Why wouldn't battle-tested well-worn advice work with the t

• tel 14y ago
  Probably w.r.t. handling market risk before tech risk and the general dangers of growing an MVP.
• ryguytilidie 14y ago
  This was the first thing I thought as well. Honestly all of them seemed fairly common sense and obvious. Didn't really disagree with any.
• mbesto 14y ago
  Good point. I should have explained. Things like: "Stop writing code" "Don't worry about engineering" "It's a marathon" Won't sit well with technical people (mainly programmers, CTO co-founder, etc)
  • nona 14y ago
    As a tech co-founder, I thought this deck was spot on. Maybe it's because I've been through that experience that I don't feel threatened at all byt hat slide. "Stop writing code/did you talk to your customers yet?" - he's so right. I've had to trash a lot of iterations of our code because we didn't heed (or grok) this advice. I still think code is very important. But coding the best thing ever and it not being used is a nearly 100% waste of effort. I can imagine that developers who haven't gone through such an experience might feel different, though.